Re: [gentoo-dev] dummy-sources

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

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On 25/07/2003 at 21:26:31(-0600), Dave Nellans used 1.4K just to say:
> I agree with brad, I proposed the emerge inject solution was how this
> problem was intended to be dealt with but couldn't quite make sense of
> the reason this didn't work from the thread.
> 
> could someone possibly clearly give the arguement against injecting
> again for us slow people?

The problems as I get them, are:

- Injecting the sources, would work, but it would require reinjecting every
  newer version, or else an "emerge -u" would upgrade the version for us, when
  for example upgrading a package that depends on the sources.

- Injecting a sufficiently big, non-existing version would not work, because an
  emerge -u (even -U) would downgrade the version to the highest available,
  i.e. it would install a version.
 
It seems that having a dummy-sources whose version does not change would solve
this problem.

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